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Flightless rails rebound from 18 to nearly 3,000

After cats wiped out Picard Island’s flightless rails, conservationists brought 18 birds back in 1999. By 2012, nearly 3,000 lived there, bringing the species back from local extinction on the Indian Ocean island of Picard.
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